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Blanket Guarantees Survey, Christian M. Mcnamara, Carey K. Mott, Greg Feldberg, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

This paper surveys 10 blanket guarantee (BG) programs across 13 Key Design Decisions. The defining characteristics of these programs in terms of their inclusion in our BG series are (a) that they guaranteed a broader range of liabilities beyond deposit accounts and (b) that the guarantees covered existing liabilities in addition to newly issued ones. Each case represents an effort to eliminate creditors’ incentive to withdraw funding from institutions by guaranteeing that the funding will be paid back even if the institutions are unable to do so themselves. The main themes that emerge are: (a) the inability of blanket guarantees …

Fire Sales, The Lolr, And Bank Runs With Continuous Asset Liquidity, Ulrich Bindseil, Edoardo Lanari

Journal of Financial Crises

Banks’ asset fire sales and recourse to central bank credit are modeled with continuous asset liquidity, allowing us to derive the liability structure of a bank. Both asset sales liquidity and the central bank collateral framework are modeled as power functions within the unit interval. Funding stability is captured as a strategic bank run game in pure strategies between depositors. Fire sale liquidity and the central bank collateral framework determine jointly the ability of the banking system to deliver maturity transformation without endangering financial stability. The model also explains why banks tend to use the least liquid eligible collateral with …

The Financialization Of Recession Response, Aaron Klein

Journal of Financial Crises

This paper analyzes economic policy responses to the COVID-19-induced recession, focusing on the American policy response. Despite widespread political distrust between the two parties sharing control of the government and the timing of the upcoming presidential election, America’s political system was able to enact a massive policy response that reduced the severity of the recession. This political response happened faster than any automatic policy response would have, based on the delays in data reporting. The economic policies enacted continued America’s trend toward financialization of fiscal policy. The Federal Reserve and America’s private banking and financial systems were heavily relied upon …

The Federal Reserve System: Diversity And Governance, Kaleb Nygaard, Peter Conti-Brown

Journal of Financial Crises

A growing chorus has called on the Federal Reserve System to diversify its ranks at all levels to reflect better the heterogeneity of the United States. So far, most of these efforts speak to the diversity of the Fed’s principals, namely, the members of the Fed’s Board of Governors and the presidents of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, who together form the Federal Open Market Committee. In this study, we look instead at a vital part of Federal Reserve governance that has so far not received the same sustained attention: the directors of the Federal Reserve Banks, those private citizens …

Introduction: Pandemic And The Global South, Puspa Damai

Critical Humanities

In lieu of abstract: Critical Humanities is a child of the coronavirus pandemic. As paradoxical as it may sound, the journal was born of our desire for community, conviviality, and survival in a world ravaged by disease, despair and death.

Adherence To Best Practices For Stated Preference Valuation Within The U.S. Marine Ecosystem Services Literature, Daniel K. Lew, Leif E. Anderson, Douglas W. Lipton, Tammy B. Murphy, Kristy Wallmo

Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics

Non-market economic values derived from stated preference (SP) methods are often of interest for policy analysis and evaluation, program design, green accounting, and damage assessments and are increasingly in demand with adoption of ecosystem-based management approaches that emphasize accounting for ecosystem services and their values. A recent guidance prescribes a set of twenty-three best practices guidelines (BPGs) to follow when conducting a SP study to ensure the validity of the results and maximize its ability to provide reliable economic value information. In this article, we evaluate adherence to these guidelines within the U.S. SP marine ecosystem service valuation literature. Our …

Plagues, Oblivion, And The Anonymous Dead Echoes From Seneca’S Oedipus And Lucan’S Civil War To Covid-19, Christina Franzen

Critical Humanities

The dead who are piled up in the literary worlds of Seneca’s Oedipus and Lucan’s Civil War are not very different than those of modernity. In their anonymity and silence, they speak so much about the atrocities and traumatic events of the societies in which they live. In Oedipus, nameless citizens claustrophobically are joined to one another in death, and, in Civil War, heaps of dead rot as Caesar looks on. One cannot help being reminded of the mass graves on Hart Island, the refrigerated morgue trucks, and the mass funeral pyres in India. This essay explores how the …

Deadly Snow: Meditations On Muriel Rukeyser, Andrei Tarkovsky, And The Pandemic Era, Nicole Lawrence

Critical Humanities

The following personal essay meditates on Appalachian fatalism and its relationship to vaccine and mask hesitancy. The analogous relationship between ecological destruction and uncertainty with the exploitation and abuse of the body serves as a waypoint to explore Appalachia’s larger dismissal towards “protection” during the pandemic. Included are original art pieces that serve to intertextually converse with Rukeyser’s activism, West Virginia’s aesthetic schism between industrial catastrophe and symbols of prosperity, and Tarkovsky’s imagery of desolation and hope.

Wagon Tracks Volume 37, Issue 1 (November 2022)

Wagon Tracks

Contents

2 On the Cover: Starvation Peak by Dennis Maloney

4 Insights from your President

6 Joanne’s Jottings

5, 8-9 Trail News

10 The First Printing Press in New Mexico

11 Poetry: "Youth on the Santa Fe Trail," "Rendezvous 2022," by Ron Wilson

12 Ancestors on the Trail: Marion Sloan Russell and Claude Francis LaLoge

13-20 Poetry, Novels, Movies, and Children's Literature of theSanta Fe Trail by Dr. Michael Olsen

20 Letter to the Editor

21-30 A Trail Tale Revisited: The Death of Jedediah Smith on the Cimarron River in 1831 by Craig Crease

31 Chapter Reports

33 Membership Form …

One-Week Inquiry About Gravity Force With A Student Who Is Blind, Mustafa Şahin Bülbül Dr.

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

This study was conducted with a student who is visually impaired and questioned the force of gravity. The different stages encountered in the process were specified as steps in the study and it was shared what kind of inquiry form was needed at each step. There are different activities such as waiting for a week and thought experiment in the inquiry activity. The basis of the activity is that three balls of different mass left on a sponge leave different traces on the sponge.

Op Lobe And The Evacuation Of Canadian Personnel From Libya, 2014: An Interview With Major (Retired) Doug Henderson, Andrew Burtch

Canadian Military History

In the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in Libya and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s intervention that overturned Muammar Gaddafi’s government amid fears of reprisals against civilians, Canada and other countries re-established a diplomatic presence. The region was still unstable with many competing militias in a tentative truce following Gaddafi’s downfall. Canada’s embassy required a military presence to secure the compound and the safety of Canadian VIPs. In July 2014, the men and women of Operation LOBE were forced to evacuate from Libya amid a diplomatic exodus during a resurgence of civil war. This piece, based largely on …

Relationships Between Technical And Physical Match Performance In Elite Soccer, Lukasz Radziminski, Andrzej Szwarc, Zbigniew Jastrzebski, Agata Rzeszutko-Belzowska

Baltic Journal of Health and Physical Activity

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential associations between physical and technical match performance and to compare these activities in relation to the match outcome. Materials and methods: The research was based on an analysis of 622 matches of the Polish Ekstraklasa during three consecutive seasons. Such variables as total distance, distance covered in different speed zones, effective playing time, ball possession, number of passes and passing accuracy were taken into account. Results: Effective playing time (E_t) was significantly and fairly correlated with total distance (r = 0.39, p < 0.001), ball possession (r = 0.50, p …

Therapeutic Potential Of Hypnotherapy To Treat Substance Use, Theresa Sanchez

Counselor Education Capstones

The use and abuse of substances has been a problem throughout the country for decades. Treatment programs attempt to mitigate the issue, but death rates from all drugs are rising each year, showing a need to implement alternate treatment options. This literature review analyzed multiple scholarly articles on the components of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. The visualization technique used in Hypnotherapy mirrors The Miracle Question that is used in Solution-Focused Therapy. Connecting this knowledge to what scientists and researchers are discovering in the field of Neuroscience allows us to see that it is possible to harness the power of the mind …

Ua19/16/1 Bowl Bound, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

Media guide for the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl, WKU vs. University of South Alabama.

Overview Of Research And Application On Autonomous Vehicle Oriented Perception System Simulation, Ruoxuan Wang, Jianping Wu, Hui Xu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Following the rapid progress of science and technology, vehicles with autonomous driving or auxiliary driving function enter into vehicle market. However, in the past decade, traffic accidents still occurred frequently, and the safety of these functions become the focus. Simulation technology provides a good platform to test the perception system of autonomous vehicle. Focus on the sensor simulation modeling of autonomous vehicle perception system, from the perspective of single sensor simulation, multi-sensor simulation and classic simulation platform including millimeter wave radar, lidar and camera, the existing research are reviewed, and the shortcomings and development trends of simulation modeling of …

Anomaly Detection Method Of Electrical Power Consumption Based On Deep Autoencoder, Ningke Sun, Yan Wang, Zhicheng Ji

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the nonlinear and non-stationary characteristics of electrical power consumption data, an abnormal electrical power consumption detection model based on deep autoencoder is proposed. Gated recurrent unit (GRU) network of the deep learning is combined with autoencoder structure, and the encoder and decoder parts of traditional autoencoder are realized by gated recurrent unit network, which gives full play to the data feature extraction capability of gated recurrent unit and the data reconstruction function of autoencoder structure. Based on the reconstruction error between original data and reconstructed data, abnormal data points of the electrical power consumption are detected. By …

Short-Term Prediction Method Of Wind Power Based On Blp-Alo-Svm, Yefeng Jiao, Yan Wang, Zhicheng Ji

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To effectively predict the short-term wind power and its fluctuation range, a prediction method based on hybrid algorithm-optimized support vector machine is proposed. Exploratory data analysis is used to preprocess the original wind speed data to improve the data quality. Chaotic map, Levy flight strategy and particle swarm optimization are used to improve the ant lion algorithm. The support vector machine model optimized by hybrid algorithm is used to predict the wind power. The experimental results show that, compared with the new wind power prediction model, the prediction error of the output results of the method is lower, and …

Self-Perceived Job Performance As A Mediator Of The Effects Of Academic Satisfaction And Quality On Loyalty, Lovemore Chikazhe, Charles Makanyeza

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Globally, there is increased customer mobility and competition within the higher education sector. As such, university management and administration practices should consider academic satisfaction, quality and loyalty as important factors to influence graduate job performance. The study was conducted to see if self-perceived job performance had a role in mediating the effect of academic satisfaction and perceived academic quality on academic loyalty. Data was collected from 714 respondents using a cross-sectional survey. The covariance-based structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. According to the study results, self-perceived job performance partially mediates the eff ect of both academic satisfaction …

Consumer Behavior On The Organic Fruit And Vegetable Market: The Evidence From Poland, Joanna Pawlak, Wioletta Wróblewska

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Consumer opinion and behavior research plays an important role in the development of the market of specific products. Currently, research in the field of consumer behavior towards organic food, which is gaining popularity on the Polish market whose production is in line with the concept of sustainable development and the European Green Deal related to it, is of particular importance. The aim of the study was to analyze the opinion and behaviors of consumers as regards organic fruit and vegetables and the promotion of these products as a determinant of them. The data for the analyzes came from empirical research …

The Attitude Of Children And Parents Towards Children Influencers, Izabela Kołaszewska, Agnieszka Kacprzak

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

The phenomenon of internet infl uencers is among the most discussed issues in marketing to children. The amount of time children spend on the internet increases every year, which increases the risk of becoming the target of infl uencer marketing. Studying the impact of infl uencers on children is of great importance not only for marketers, but also for parents responsible for upbringing their off spring. This article presents the results of a qualitative study aimed at describing three components of the attitude (cognitive, emotional and behavioural) of children and parents towards children infl uencers. The methods employed in this …

Simulation-Driven Based Utility Evaluation And Recommendation Of Expressway Proactive Speed Limit, Geqi Qi, Sijin Liu, Yikang He, Meng Wang, Ailing Huang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Outside the specific punishment area, the traditional roadside passive speed limit mode lacks traffic management, and thus which indirectly leads to the inconsistency or even sudden change of vehicle behaviors in time and space, thereby affects the traffic efficiency and safety. Focusing on the proactive speed limit mode at vehicle side, a utility evaluation and recommendation method is proposed, which carries out the multi-scenario traffic simulation for varied proactive and passive speed limit considering road line types, traffic flow and vehicle type proportion. From the two perspectives of safety and efficiency, the utility evaluation indicators and weights are extracted …

Simulation On Flood Disaster In Urban Building Complex System Based On Lbm, Shen Zhang, Zewang Yang, Yifan Wang, Liang Sun, Ming Cheng, Fankai Meng, Ting Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Because of the extreme climate change, the potential flood disaster risk in the southeast coastal areas of China can not be ignored. Based on lattice Boltzmann computational fluid dynamics method, a three-dimensional simulation study of waterlogging process in tsunami impact scenario is carried out for a coastal city building complex system, and the reliability and accuracy of the numerical simulation method for the flood impact test of an ideal building complex are verified. The results show that the buildings along rivers and coastlines have obvious cloaking effect, while the buildings inside the city are less affected by floods. The …

Research On Modeling And Simulation Technology Of Microwave Radar High Precision Tracking Loop, Jiaji Lou, Jing Ma, Xiaowei Li, Yue Zhao, Youbin Song

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the key problem of high-precision tracking loop design of a measurement radar for the weak signal (low carrier to noise ratio signal) in dynamic environment, the design and optimization methods of carrier tracking loop and code tracking loop are focused on. A signal structure with a single carrier as a pilot is proposed, and the loop structure of the frequency-locked loop and the phase-locked loop working together is studied. The modeling and simulation on the two structures show that for the week signal tracking in a dynamic environment, the loop combination structure of the frequency-serial auxiliary …

Research On Parameter Construction Method Of Blue Army Equipment Model Based On A Deep Network, Boyuan Zhang, Guanghong Gong, Ze Wang, Ni Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The modeling of blue army equipment is an indispensable part of adversarial simulation environment construction. Aiming at the limited available parameters of "information-poor" and "small sample" characteristics to the blue system, a deep network-based method is proposed to generate the parameters of blue army equipment model. By injecting the information into the simulation model of the blue army equipment, the simulation data is generated and trained in the deep neural network. The obtained network has a certain generalization ability to the unknown parameters prediction of the same type of equipment and can be used directly in prediction or be …

Multi-Robot Path Planning Based On Cbs Algorithm, Qiao Qiao, Yan Wang, Zhicheng Ji

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the long multi-robot planning path and long one-way search running time of conflict-based search(CBS) in the multi-agent path finding(MAPF), an improved CBS algorithm is proposed, which in a two-way A^* focus search is used to optimize the search direction and search method. The suboptimal factorωis introduced into the underlying search function of the CBS algorithm to improve the efficiency of path search. The one-way search in the conflict search algorithm is optimized to a two-way A^* search. The experimental results show that the path cost of the improved CBS algorithm is shortened …

Conquer And Prevail Issue 128 December 21 2022, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Conquer and Prevail Newsletter

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Research On Complex Combat Network Dynamic Evolution Based On Information Entropy, Lianyi Zhang, Xisheng Shen, Duzheng Qing, Han Zhang, Min Zhou, Xifu Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Network-centric warfare, distributed and decentralized command and control gradually replace separately the traditional platform-centric warfare and centralized command and control, and information has become a combat capability. Based on the new information weapon equipment system operation loop, a complex combat network model based on information entropy is constructed, and the combat capability measurement method is proposed. On the basis of the combat capability upgrade being the network driving force, the dynamic evolution rule of the complex combat network is designed and the preferential evolution and stochastic evolution models are constructed. According to a typical system combat example, the influence …

Assessing The Influence Of Behavioural Parameterisation On The Dispersal Of Larvae In Marine Systems, M. K. James, J. A. Polton, C. G. Mayorga-Adame, K. L. Howell, A. M. Knights

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Predicting dispersal and quantifying ecological connectivity are increasingly referenced as fundamental to understanding how biodiversity is structured across space and time. Dispersal models can provide insight, but their predictions are influenced by our capacity to simulate the biology and physics known to influence dispersal. In a marine context, vertical swimming behaviour is considered important in influencing the spatial organisation of species across seascapes, but the mechanisms underpinning these movements remain unresolved, making it unclear how best to incorporate behaviour within models. Here, using a 3-D hydrodynamic model coupled with a Lagrangian particle tracker, we show how different modelled larval behaviours, …

Inequality Among The Disadvantaged? Racial/Ethnic Disparities In Earnings Among Young Men And Women Without A College Education, Byeongdon Oh, Daniel Mackin Freeman, Dara Shifrer

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Despite the rapid expansion of higher education, many young adults still enter the labor market without a college education. However, little research has focused on racial/ethnic earnings disadvantages faced by non-college-educated youth. We analyze the restricted-use data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to examine racial/ethnic earnings disparities among non-college-educated young men and women in their early 20s as of 2016, accounting for differences in premarket factors and occupation with an extensive set of controls. Results suggest striking earnings disadvantages for Black men relative to white, Latinx, and Asian men. Compared to white men, Latinx and Asian men …

From Protection To Prevention: The Case For Incorporating Anti-Sexual Harassment Provisions Into Nova Scotia’S Occupational Health And Safety Legislation, Sydney Hull

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

This paper asks if the law in Nova Scotia adequately reflects the accepted notion that every employee has the right to a workplace free from sexual harassment. Nova Scotia trails most other Canadian jurisdictions in its exclusion of psychological violence and mental health hazards from occupational health and safety legislation. This paper begins by canvassing current legal remedies available to victims of workplace sexual harassment. Concluding that current human rights, tort, and contact frameworks do not sufficiently protect employees, it argues that Nova Scotia’s Occupational Health and Safety Act must be amended to include sexual harassment and other forms of …